Posts Tagged ‘Steinway’

A Steinway concert grand costs only about a tenth of the price of a fine Stradivarius but John Paulson, a hedge fund manager, is about to pay over a hundred times the price of that violin to own that ...
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This is one of those questions I get asked regularly. The presumption is that we pianists will own the piano of our dreams, that we will have searched out the equivalent of a Stradivarius, saved or bo...
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One thing I have a slight obsession with is clean piano keys. I'm not especially phobic about germs as such, but the condition of some keyboards is execrable. I've seen white keys blackened with filth...
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I wrote about this topic before here but I'm including it in this 'Practice Tip' series because it's so helpful yet so rarely considered. Where should you sit on the piano bench? I'm off to Stockhol...
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I was sad to read today that Alexis Weissenberg, the Bulgarian pianist, had died at the weekend aged 82. I met him twice, once in 1988 when we were both playing in a gala concert at Carnegie Hall in c...
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And so my week of concerts with Steven Isserlis has come to an end. This week I'm off to Scotland to play the Grieg Concerto with Peter Oundjian and the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. There are ma...
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I've written recently about various aspects of Liszt's enormous influence on musical life – on concert habits and on music itself. But for pianists his inventive prowess at the keyboard actual...
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Ernest Fleischmann was not universally liked in the music business, but he was a good professional friend to me over the years. This week is the first time I will be playing at the Hollywood Bowl wi...
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Few companies enjoy such market dominance as Steinway and Sons. The piano maker has most of the world’s greatest keyboard virtuosi signed up – and gets very irritated if its stars ever tinkle an...
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So rich and complex is the technique of pedalling for the pianist that it would probably be possible to have a blog exclusively about it. Anton Rubinstein (the composer and founder of Russian pianism,...
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